The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-06
HUSBANDRY HINTS.

WHEN weaving colts good substitute
for milk will be found in crushed oats
and linseed.
The fattening hogs will do better if
allowed a place to dig into the dry
earth, as the earth is natural antidote
for the acidity of the stomach.
Top dressing is no doubt the best
method of applying manure on heavy
or clay soils, and is generally adopted
by the most successful wheat growers.
An inexpensive method of preserving
eggs for the winter months is to dip
them in boiled linseed oil. then pack
them in fine salt, small end down, and
keep in cool place.
BETTER success in keeping early Irish
potatoes may be had by not digging IN
til after killing frost in the fall. They
keep better in the ground during warm
weather than any where else.
WHEN allowed TO ripen, seed nIillet
should be soWn rather thickly, so as to
restrict seed production and also to
have larger proportion of leaves and
less of coarse, woody stalks.
A FARMER who has tried both ways
says he finds that by spreading manure
over the potato field and blowing it IN
in the fall, gives him a better crop thai
letting the work gotill spring,
A SIMPLE and efficacious method of
treating sti6e is TO buckle a strap
around the opposite leg Just above the
hook, making it so tight as to cause the
horse to stand on the affected leg, and
the trouble will speedily leave.
The carrot has more fattenIng quail
ties than other roots and for this reason
is particularly adapted to sheep young
cattle and all animals intended for
meat. Carrots will help to fatten ami
mails quickly and with less cost than
other roots, and quick fattening pro-
duces tender and juicy meat.
COOP silage, properly fed, is nourish-
ing, relishable, and produces good re-
suits. The milk from it is sweet and
rich and it improves the churning
quality of the cream, while it does not
injure if it does not actually improve
the quality of the milk. 1t may also be
justly claimed to increase the produc-
lion of both milk and butter.
ONE great cause of bulls becoming
vicious IS that they do not nave exercise
enough. Kept up in stables, and especi-
ally if high-ted, they chafe IN their con-
tinement, and when let out are disposed
to play or attack anything or person
they can get at. The pest way to keep |
bulls quiet is to let them run in a |
fenced yard or paddock.
WHEN cabbage roots swell and become
large like turnips, it is caused by the at
lacks of a small bug, the larva of a |
black fly, known as the cabbage fly, and |
which is akin to the onion fly. This fly |
1oes not attack cabbage in new ground,
where they-or turnips-haVe not been
grown previously, nor when the soil has
been literally dressed with lime.
LET the potatoes get we'll dried, and
pass through the sweat in a cool, dry
place before being put into the bins.
These should be dry and airy, we'll
and air Stacked lime
'prinkled on the tubers. Don't put too
many in one bin; wide bin filed with
The tubers to a depth of a foot or two
Will keep them better than narrow bin
several feet in depth.
For old trees that have failed to yield
4 profitable leturn, proceed in this man.
ler: Dig the soil up thoroughly and
hen supply good dressing of Well-rOt-
ed stable manure and work thoroughly
nto the soil. Then, if you have them,
apply a dressing OF wood ashes. II
hese fail to revive the tree, after giving
good pruning it is about past redemp-
ion, and should give way TO something
etter.
RED CLOVER should be given promin
MT place in seeding lands for pasture or
MEADOW if The hay is to be used on the
arm Blue grass does badly during
reat drought, but its fine quality, per
lanence, thick sod, early growth in
pring and late autumn make it very
aluable. No substitute of equal value
as been found for timothy as a grass
1r hay, but the yield per acre and feed
lg value per ton are greater if clover is
rown with it.
A DEEP, moderately rich, sandy soil
e literally MANFRED, ploWed deep and
pulverized. Best to SOW the
aed early in the spring and pretty
nick in the drills, as field crop may
e dug by throwing them out with
Ib soil pillow. The harvesting is done
tie in the fall, because touch of frost
improves them. Take out only what
ill be wanted for winter use, and leave
ne remainder in the ground until
pring.
THosEwho have made study of the
latter claim that the rotation of crops
affies the root enemies, both insect and
lngoid, that prey upon the various
rops. Each plant having its own
ocular enemies, the changing of plants
them to fields unoccupied by
UGH enemies. This is true of the
nemies of the above-ground growth of !
lants TO an important degree. Rota-
ion consorves soil fertility and yet aids
4 soil decomposition by alienation of
rass or clover crops and hoed crops.